An effectively harrowing Brit thriller-cum-horror pic whose yuppie protags' weekend getaway runs violently afoul of the local youth.

Full Review | Nov 3, 2008

It is impossible not to admire the way Watkins ratchets up the tension in his debut as director (he wrote My Little Eye) and keeps his tale strictly to 90 minutes.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 12, 2008

It's the latest proof that, when it comes to scary movies at least, the British film industry is alive and screaming.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2008

Daily Mail scaremongering? Possibly. But formidably well-made, all the same.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 12, 2008

Eden Lake: pursuit, persecution, violent death.

| Sep 12, 2008

For all the brutality of the confrontation with knife-weilding, car-nicking local scum - think Stanley knives gouging out tongues - it's never far off ludicrous.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 12, 2008

This looks to me like the best British horror film in years: nasty, scary and tight as a drum.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2008

It's a claustrophobic marvel, and an impressive debut by Watkins.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 12, 2008

The film's one major fault is that Reilly's character repeatedly acts in ways that serve the plot, but which run contrary to rational human behaviour. By contrast, the shattering downbeat ending is well earned and genuinely shocking.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Sep 12, 2008

You don't watch it, you survive it. A battering experience, and the hardest Brit horror in years.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 9, 2008